Razor-strop



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES L. FOVLE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

RAZOR-STROP.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,938, dated November 28, 1848.

To all (whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES L. FowLE, of Bo-ston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Razor-Strop; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented vin the following specification and accompanying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof.

Of the said drawings Figure 1 denotes a top view; Fig. 2, a horizontal section; and Fig. 3 a side elevation of my improved strop.

A, in said figures, represents an endless band made of leather (or some other equiva lent) and stretched around two blocks, or pieces B, C, of wood or other proper material, shaped and arranged together as seen in the drawings. The two opposite sides of the piece B, viz, those which are respectively adjacent to the inner parallel surfaces ofv the band A, are made concave, or are hollowed or -curved out as seen in Fig. 3. Through the piece or block O, a screw D, (having a handle E,) passes, the said block having a female screw cut through it to receive the screw D. The end of the saidv screw D, is made to abut or act against the contiguous end of the block or piece B, so that when the screw is screwed up, the piece B, may be forced away from the pieceor block C, in such manner as to elongate or draw tight the belt A. The two opposite external sides of the belt A, 'are covered with paste or composition suitable for sharpn ening a razor or any other article of cutlery to which the strop may be adapted.

In order to prevent the screw block O, from turning out of Aplace two steady pins pass and move into corresponding sockets or holes I-I, I, made or bored in the end of the piece B, as seen in Fig. 2.

It is well known that for ysharpening a razor or taking off the wiry edge afterit has been honed, barbers generally prefer a common leather strap, one end of whichv is bination made up of the following elements or their mechanical equivalents, viz, n the do-uble concave piece B, the screw block C,

the screw D, and the endless hand A, the whole being applied together and used vin the manner as described.

In testimony whereofQI have Vhereto setv What therefore I claim as my invention My improved razor'strop made substan` tially as specified, or in other words a com-v.

my signature this twenty-fourth day of Febf ruary, A. D. 1848.' y CHARLES L. FOWLE. I Witnesses: Y f

R. II. EDDY, CALEB EDDY.

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